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PTACs suck. Well-maintained, newer models suck less, but they still suck. Unless well-insulated, the sleeves leak air (and humidity). And there's a duopoly between Ice Air and Isla…

The Balatro game that Fable spit out (Flipside) https://play-flipside.netlify.app/ is buggy but fun. Fable also fixed one of my personal pet peeves. Unlike Balatro, it comes with a…

Scroll through his X account -- Charlie Kirk and DHH content are some recent entries. He is one of those people who thinks tech should be apolitical without really interrogating wh…

Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jak…

Maybe not common, but there’s Control.Arrow.(>>>)

try this alt stylesheet https://ddanluu.com/nothing-works

Rider's recent free non-commercial license makes F# a much more attractive option for macOS, I think

James Somers writes beautifully; https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/james-somers has some of his other writing

reminds me of why the lucky stiff's hoodwink.d project, in a good way

> I made fermented hot sauce once, and i don't think it was sufficiently different to other kinds to be worth doing again. But then, i have only done it once! +1. I spent hours lov…

Formatted with minimal CSS: https://ddanluu.com/seo-spam

Yes, this article is borrowing liberally from Passage of Power (2012), the fourth book: > Lucy’s father was not as pleased with his new quarters. Two days after the Johnsons moved …

Apropos of nothing, except that it shows off that Firefox implements the OpenSearch spec correctly, here's a Wordle clone my friend Nolen built in Firefox's address bar: https://ei…

I think you're using concurrency in a non-traditional sense https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/what-is-the-diff... and I also think you're being a little bit uncharitable

formatted for wide monitors https://ddanluu.com/wat

Related: https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

The person who founded Elliott Management (Paul Eliott Singer) is far from a saint, but he has been astonishingly accurate during his career. According to Wikipedia (I did a big de…

Yes, raising an exn in OCaml is close to jumping to an address stored in a register. https://stackoverflow.com/a/8567429 As a result, raising and catching exns in OCaml is cheap. L…

Check out https://bauble.studio too

+1 Sisters with Transistors. I watched this in the dark at the Metrograph, a theater in the outskirts of Manhattan, with maybe six other people, and the experience was transcendent…

Fun fact: GNU Readline and Bash are maintained by a single person. https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#Maintai... In case you were looking for more examples of "op…

There's a memorable Stripe CTF from 2014 that had something similar (Gitcoins). This brought back fond memories of that.

I agree!! I think having APL be a embedded domain-specific language is the perfect fit. I don't want to give up record and union types when I'm programming something large; but som…

This is what got me and my friend into APL-likes. My friend even made an APL-like towards the end. I assert that APL is one of the main, definitional pillars of programming languag…